Improvement in gilding and ornamenting leather for suspender ends



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. WALKER, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT TO STEPHEN CUTTER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN GILDING AND ORNAMENTING LEATHER FOR SUSPENDER ENDS, 85c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,955, dated August 27, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. WALKER, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gilding and Ornamenting Leather for the Ends or Straps of Suependers; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same.

Heretofore the leather portions of suspenders have been ornamented by stamping, stitching, and printing or dyeing. The stamping soon is effaced by the continual wetting from perspiration, the stitching becomes soiled, and

the dyeing and printing fades and stains the clothing. My invention obviates all these objections, and consists in gilding or bronzin g the leather used for suspenders ends with goldleaf, metal-foil, or with bronze, either in the form of leaf or in powder. The gilt or foil or leaf is applied by means of stamps or dies containing any suitable ornamental design, and may be applied by any of the means now used for applying ornamental designs to leather by means of gilding and bronzing. The processes, being well understood by the workers in this method of ornamenting leather, need not be particularly described. Any of the ornamental designs now'applied to suspender ends may be used in carrying out my invention, and great beauty and durability in the article secured.

I do not claim any form of suspenders, as I apply my invention to any of the forms in use in which leather is employed for the ends or button-hole portions, and to the leather used to connect these with the web, whether the latter is made elastic or not.

If the leather is dyed it should be with what are known as fast colors, so that no stain will be imparted to the clothing. The methods of dyeing, softening, strengthening, and waterproofing leather to make it suitable for use in A the manufacturing of suspenders ends being no part of my invention need not be described. Artificial or imitation leather, when used, may also be ornamented in same manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The improved method herein described for ornamenting leather for suspenders ends, the same consisting in the application of gilt, metal, foil, or bronze to leather, as and for the purposes described.

2. The new articles of manufacture made by the application of gilt,-metal foil, or bronze to leather in the mannerset forth.

GEO. W. WALKER.

Witnesses:

ALBERT M. MOORE, S. M. BOARDMAN. 

